Will Chuck Park Defeat Grace Meng in the Primary?
Can a Proverbial David, Chuck Park, Beat the Queens Machine Goliath, Grace Meng?
May 31, 2026 / Jackson Heights Neighborhood / Queens Politics / Queens News / News Analysis & Opinion / Queens Buzz.
Late Sunday, on a beautiful afternoon, I headed over to attend a 'Dumplings & Dialogue' event hosted by the 6th Congressional District House candidate, Chuck Park, at Kabab King in Jackson Heights. The Park campaign's volunteer press liaison, had reached out to me a few times, with compelling narratives that caught my interest.
Chuck Park is shown in the photo at right at a campaign event entitled 'Dumplings & Dialogue' held in Jackson Heights this past Sunday at the Kabab King. He's shown here with his daughter and the daughter of one of the Park campaign volunteers. The Dumplings & Dialogue event had a fun, laid back, family feel to it.
The Park campaign narratives sent to me by the volunteer press liaison, included: Meng's acceptance of big money donations, Meng's support for sending billions in unconditional aid to Israel, Park's opposition to the awarding of a casino license to a billionaire tied to one of the largest insider trading scandals by a hedge fund in modern history [aka the firm was caught cheating] and Meng's lack of achievement in doing anything meaningful for the immigrant families of Queens which make up about half the borough's population. That Chuck Park's campaign had put together a simple, but resonant narrative, as to why Meng should be replaced, struck a chord, as I began my effort to delve more deeply into the two candidates of this contest. Park's effort to unseat Meng sounded viable, which has not been the case for well over a decade.
Grace Meng first won her congressional seat back in 2012. The Joe Crowley-led, Queens County Democratic machine, placed his cousin, Elizabeth Crowley's, name on the primary ballot, which pundits believed was to siphon votes away from Rory Lancman, who was a leading contender. Elizabeth Crowley held an NYC Council position at the time, and did not appear to campaign seriously, supporting this hypothesis. Meng won with less than 51% of the vote, but it was more than enough, as Crowley had made it a three-way race and had taken 16% of the vote. The Crowleys are no longer the influential people they once were in Queens politics, and it's possible that tricks like this contributed to their descent. The deadline for a trick like this has passed, as the final day to place a name on the ballot was May 19, 2026.
Who is Chuck Park?
The candidate challenging Grace Meng is a family man, the son of Korean immigrants who are small business owners, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and Chuck was a federal employee of the diplomatic corps in the Obama and first Trump Administrations
In the photo above or at right shows Chuck Park with some of the volunteers who participated in the Dumplings and Dialogue campaign event hosted by 6th District Congressional candidate. Standing next to Chuck is Noor Shams who is a food writer,community organizer and cofounder of Alaap NYC - https://www.alaapnyc.com - and Rachel Gurjar who is a chef, cookbook author and culinary creative - https://www.rachelgurjar.com/about/. As you can see here and will see below, the campaign seems to have attracted a young, diverse, energetic group of volunteers.
I stepped off the subway at 74th Street in Jackson Heights. I knew of the general location of the arrived at the Kabab King restaurant, but to be sure, I asked one of the shopkeepers for the specific location. The shopkeeper happily answered right away, which I interpreted as an unofficial endorsement of the restaurant as it was well known and I was told with a smile. The Kabab King has a takeout window which opens directly into Diversity Plaza. The restaurant serves Pakistani / Bangladeshi cuisine, and offers full restaurant services on the second floor, in a comfortable expansive dining room which has numerous windows overlooking the street. The Chuck for Queens Dumpling & Dialogue event was held in a private party room in the back.
When I entered the private room, I saw two long tables filled with a young, diverse, energetic group of interested voters and volunteers. Dumplings had been served from the warming cabinet at one end of the room, which also had plenty of sunshine let in by a wall filled with many windows. There was plenty of conversation flowing, and there were a couple of children present, indicating that this was a family-friendly social event.
I talked to Chuck for a while asking him about his past, which includes that he is the son of businesspeople who operate a local store, that he is married and has a daughter, and that he was educated in Economics at top ranking University of Pennsylvania. Chuck spent six years working in the federal government as a diplomat during the Obama Administration, and another 2 - 3 years in the first Trump Administration doing the same, ending when he quit in dissatisfaction with the Trump policies.
From 2022 - 2024 Chuck started working for Shekar Krishnan as his Chief of Staff. While neither Krishnan nor Park will discuss the break up, it's worth noting that Park has been an outspoken critic of providing SAC Capital billionaire Steve Cohen of the 'Black Edge' Insider Trading Scandal with a casino license next to Mets Stadium in Flushing. Krishan on the other hand, remained silent about the casino, and based on a quick and dirty check of Krishnan campaign donations I found that Krishnan has received donations from entities that do business with Steve Cohen. Krishnan is also supporting Gonzales-Rojas for NYS Senator whose husband has business dealings with Cohen. SAC Capital Cohen's firm paid nearly $2 billion in fines and essentially stopped trading for the public, following a settlement with the federal government for insider trading violations. So, it's pure speculation on my part, but it's possible that this issue may have contributed to them parting ways. We've been covering the saga of the NYS awarding of a casino license to a billionaire, Steve Cohen, who founded a hedge fund, SAC Capital, caught cheating making insider trades. For details on this story, which continues, see - https://www.gothambuzz.nyc/article/633/steve-cohen-corruption-sac-capital-insider-trading-scandal-steve-cohen-black-edge-insider-trading-scandal-steve-cohen-mets-owner-steve-cohen-nys-casino-license
In the photo above or at right is a table filled with Chuck for Queens volunteers at the Kabab King in Jackson Heights on Sunday, May 31, 2026. The enthusiasm was refreshing at a time when so much in politics has become so sordid.
When I asked Chuck why he entered the race, he told me it was first and foremost that he did not think Grace Meng was doing a very good job of representing / standing up for her district. When I probed for details he said that he wants to defund ICE, ] and that he wants to pass Medicare for All, which would move the U.S. to a single payer system like Canada and Taiwan. Use this link to learn more about that issue - Medicare for All - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_for_All_Act
And Chuck Park also wants the federal government to quit fleecing [that's my word - not his] the American taxpayers for the funding used by the Israeli's to commit genocide in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and neighboring territories.
We did a story a couple years back, which identifies that the Netanyahu Israelis have been on an imperialistic binge, funded by American taxpayers thanks to Grace Meng & co. And since Trump 2.0 began their efforts to exploit opportunities in the Middle East, the Israeli's efforts have also been staffed in part with American GI's lives. Since the story was written, the Israelis have been illegally annexing lands in Gaza, the West Bank, farmlands along a river in Lebanon, and in the report we talked about the Israelis' illegal annexed and were developing oil fields in the Syrian Golan Heights. Worth noting is that Fox TV News billionaire, Rupert Murdoch, and former VP Dick Cheney both signed up for stock / shares in the oil company tasked with the development. For details see - https://www.gothambuzz.nyc/article/534/israeli-imperialism-funded-by-the-american-taxpayer-the-palestinian-kristallnacht
Chuck Park Picks Up Numerous Endorsements
Chuck has received a number of notable endorsements including but not limited to the following, Sunrise Movement NYC, New York Progressive Action Network, Citizen Action of New York, The 504 Democratic Club, The Korean American Democratic Committee, Muslim Democratic Club of New York, Central Queens Independent Democrats, Forest Hills Indivisible, Raj Goyle, Candidate for NYS Comptroller, Citizens Against AIPAC Corruption, and Progressive Victory - to name a few.
In the photo above or at right are some of Chuck for Queens campaign materials. Chuck Park is looking to replace Democratic Machine candidate Grace Meng, to be the representative for the 6th Congressional District of NYS.
Things to Know About Grace Meng
1. She's the Democratic Establishment / Machine Candidate. She's been the 6th District Congresswoman since 2012. She votes with the party almost every time, which is why Hakeem Jeffries reportedly leaned on the Working Families Party NOT to endorse Chuck Park, even though 94% of the Queens delegation voted in Chuck Park's favor and 67% of the Regional Advisory Council did too. For details on this see - https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/03/wfp-isnt-endorsing-meng-challenger-chuck-park-after-all/412259/
2. A Meng aid, Linda Sun, helped Meng get her start in American politics, roughly around the time period 2009 - 2012, before moving into the Governor's Office, under Cuomo in 2018, and stayed there until dismissed by Governor Hochul's Administration in 2022. In 2024 Linda Sun was arrested in her Long Island home and charged with 8 criminal counts, including acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese Communist Party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Sun
3. Grace Meng's father, Jimmy Meng, was an NYS Assemblyman. Grace Meng picked up his seat two years after he left, which hints at the 'inheritance' factor which may be found too often in Queens politics. Her father was taken to court for accepting $80,000 to use his influence to bribe a court official, and then pocketing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Meng
Grace Meng has not been implicated in either her former aide's nor her father's criminality.
Lastly, We Followed the Money of the 'Pivoting Politician'
Has Meng, like former Mayor Eric Adams, been Representing her Funders instead of the Voters?
Former Mayor Eric Adams is, in my mind, the Democratic Party poster child for pols / government officials who campaign as one of use, win, pivot, and then governs for the interests of the wealthy campaign funders. But Eric Adams is far from alone, as almost the entire Republican Party has devolved into such politicians / government officials.
Sadly, Grace Meng also appears to fit the above description of the Pivoting Politician.
Thankfully, at least so far, Zohran Mamdani, does NOT fit this description, as he appears to be working very hard to deliver on what he promised voters. And since he never won big donor money in the first place, he doesn't really seem to have many / any big donors to whom he is indebted, nor needs to please.
Who Funds a Candidate Makes a Difference - Eg. Elon Musk
Since the Supreme Court Overreached in its Citizens United Ruling back in 2010, the Billionaires and Other Selfish Interests have had Their Way
One of the most notable failures [there are so many] of the John Roberts Supreme Court was the Citizens United decision handed down in 2010. We were just kind of starting, and did a short piece on it at the time - https://www.gothambuzz.nyc/article/78/supreme-court-campaign-finance-ruling
Since then, big money has played an ever increasingly role in U.S. politics, even enabling billionaires to buy presidential elections, which we witnessed when Elon Musk essentially bought the presidency for Donald J. Trump in 2024. Musk spent a quarter billion dollars in the final month(s) of the campaign, primarily in the key swing states, to help Trump win the election. The swing states were polling very close, but in Kamala's favor, until Musk essentially started buying votes for Trump, heading into election day.
Contrary to what you heard on billionaire TV News, Trump won by a nose hair of 2.3 million votes out of a total of 152.3 million votes cast. That's winning by less than 2%. The electoral college outcome, however, was significantly different at 226 for Harris to 312 for Trump. The Electoral College outcome favored Trump because of Elon's Musk 1/4 billion dollar campaign spending in the final months.
Essentially, Musk paid $125 per winning vote. But that's a pittance, relative to the rewards reaped by Musk. In what appeared to be a Quid Pro Quo, Musk became DOGE head, and for the first five months of Trump 2.0, he seemed to be given a free license to ransack through all of the federal government's data in which he had an interest, with little to no oversight. And the $38 billion in business Musk companies have done with the U.S. government appears to have been protected.
But I digress. The point is that big money, buys big influence from the pols, regardless of whether it's done legally or not. Hence, we voters have to watch the money flows, in as much as we can, so we're not left holding the bag, as we've been left to do - so, so, so many times over the past few decades.
And Grace Meng appears to have taken a lot of money, and voted for a lot of things, that are in the interests of her funders, and not in the interests of Queens voters.
Grace Meng - Maybe Not as Bad as Eric Adams - but not that Good Either
Grace Meng, whose father was an NYS Assemblyman in 2005 - 2006, is well connected to the well-established Democratic Machine. Hence the story above, when the machine first stepped in to help her win the Congressional seat in 2012. In the current election, the Democratic Machine appears to have stepped in to help her again, this time by reportedly leaning on the Working Families Party NOT to endorse Chuck Park - even though a solid majority of the Queens delegation [over 90%] favored endorsing him.
American Israeli Political Action Committee & Grace Meng's Votes
According to Ballotpedia as of March 31, 2026, Grace Meng has raised $1.4 million. And in spite of spending $1.1 million, she still has $1.3 million in cash at hand [prior years of funding]. According to Open Secrets, the American Israeli Political Action Committee [aka AIPAC] is Meng's largest donor. They donated as much to Grace Meng this year, as Chuck Park has raised in total [$279,000] from small donors. Coincidence?
Meng has been a strong supporter of funding Israel and sending them free weapons paid for by you and me, with no strings attached. Since Israelis don't fully fund their own wars, because they convince our pols to, they are able to have offer their citizens free healthcare, and subsidized education, and allow Israeli citizens to claim religious exemptions to military service, in part because America is in part fighting their wars for them. Meanwhile the American people who are paying for Israeli wars, don't have free healthcare and education, and since the arrival of Donald J. Trump's 2.0 rollout of America Last, Americans are also experiencing significant cutbacks in federal government services. Thank you Grace Meng?
Given how much money AIPAC and Israeli-friendly donors hand out to candidates who favor Israeli weapons and aid packages - with no strings and few if any safeguards on how the money is spent - one has to wonder whether some of our own money, is subsequently, indirectly, re-circulated back into the U.S., via donations to Israel funding friendly candidates, so that the American taxpayer money tree will keep on giving? This 'priming the pump' campaign donations strategy is not a new or unique concept, as noted in the Elon Musk example cited above.
In Modern Times Billionaire TV News seems to function like a Privately Owned Propaganda Press
Israel wins, Musk wins, other billionaires win and so do the politicians to whose campaigns they fund. Only we, the American People, the hardworking taxpayers, are the losers.
But in part it's our own fault for not making sure our information sources are providing us with the full picture, needed to make well informed, intelligent choices. That is something billionaire TV News does not do, as it's a medium that is currently by, for and of the billionaires. The billionaire TV News outlets show their viewers a world that only includes the things the billionaires want their viewers to see or know about - often enough leaving out important details that the viewers and voters should know, in order to make the best choices. To learn more about how Fox News has manipulated voters' perceptions over the years, see our report series - Billionaire Rupert Murdoch and the Rise of the Propaganda Press. This exposes many of the tricks Murdoch has used over the years to manipulate public perceptions.
This could be a coincidence, but it may also be an example? Grace Meng hasn't been seen at a congressional hearing on TV since February 26, 2025. Yesterday, June 2, 2026, she magically appears on a televised congressional hearing, just three weeks before the primary. Why isn't TV News providing equal time by covering Chuck Park's campaign? Maybe the owners of TV News don't want voters to know there's an appealing, viable choice to Meng. Maybe the billionaire owners of TV News don't want there to be any growth or momentum for what Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Zohran Mamdani have started, because over time the billionaire owners of TV News might have to start paying taxes at rates paid by the rest of us.
The Meng campaign is fully funded by AIPAC alone, but that's not where the potential for corrupt influence of Meng votes ends. She received another $74,000 in Political Action Committee money, which also frequently represents the selfish interests. TV News calls them the 'special interests', which is one tiny example of how billionaire TV News distorts viewers' perceptions of the real world. There's nothing special about them - except perhaps that they are even more selfish than the rest of us.
And then there are Grace Meng's stable of large individual donors, who I didn't have time to research by name, who contributed another $1.4 million to her campaign. Big donors are oftentimes found to be funding the same causes as the PAC's.
Chuck Park Soundly Defeats Grace Meng on a Level Funding Field
Lastly, Grace Meng raised $18,000 from small donors. This is 6% of the amount of small donor contributions that Chuck Park raised, so you know right off the bat who represents, 'We The People'. It's a hands down Chuck Park win by 16x.
According to Ballotpedia as of March 31, 2026, Chuck Park has raised $282,000 which appears to be mostly, if not entirely from small donors, individuals and fundraising events. That's the 'David' budget in the David v. Goliath battle.
In the photo above or at right you can see a number of the folks who came to the Dumplings and Dialogue campaign event, including the Chuck for Queens volunteer press liaison, Haley [far left], who first contacted me about the campaign. There is a level of excitement and optimism in this campaign, that seems reminiscent of the Mamdani mayoral campaign. And the candidate, and the people who he has drawn to support his campaign, collectively project a calm, casual charisma that I found engaging.
Voting Calculus - Chuck Park's Chances Range Between Fair & Good
But Only You, the Voters, Will Determine the Outcome
The most contested race Meng has faced in congress involved about 232,000 voters in the General Election in 2020. But the primary requires far fewer votes. In 2020 only 46,000 votes were cast, of which Meng received 31,000 of them. Chuck Park has 70,000 Instagram followers, up from 12,000 in November of 2025. If he can mobilize his followers he has more than a solid chance of beating Meng.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any polls out about this race as of this writing.
As mentioned above, I asked Chuck what his top priorities were. He told me 1) affordable healthcare via Medicare for All, 2) defund ICE and 3) defund genocide.
He told us he needs volunteers to knock on doors, to make phone calls, to pass out leaflets to fight back against the millions poured into Grace Meng's campaign by the selfish interests. And like all Davids, he could use donations too. He told me that his campaign has enlisted the support of 600 volunteers so far, but they can always use more, and they are going to keep working up until the election on June 23rd, 2026. So there's not much time, but there's still time to get involved - see his website to learn how you can play a role in this campaign and election - https://chuckforqueens.com
Saturday, June 13, 2026 is the last day you'll be able to Register to Vote in the NYC Primary on June 23, 2026. Applications must be received by the NY Board of Elections to be eligible to vote in this election. See - https://elections.ny.gov
It won't be a government by, for and of The People very much longer, if the people don't pay attention, and don't get involved. Thomas Jefferson said that those who believe they can remain ignorant and free believe in something that never was and never shall be.
Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
Events & Things to do This Weekend & Next Week in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & Staten Island Events - Details Below
May 29, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
The photo above or at right was earlier this month of the contents in my NYC kitchen composting pail. I found it had an engaging aesthetic, and knowing that it will be recycled, provides me with a small sense of achievement - that I'm part of the solution - not the problem.
Sunrise 5.30 / 34 am. Sunset 8.19 / 13 pm. We're getting 14 hours & 50 minutes of sunlight, or five hours and 37 minutes more of sunlight than we were getting the week of the Winter Solstice, on December 21, 2025 when the sun rose at 7.18 am and the sun set at 4.31 pm. The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of this year, providing 9 hours and 13 minutes of sunlight in NYC.
NYC Weather - NYC Can Differ Slightly / Significantly vs TriState TV News Forecasts. No precipitation is in the forecast, but it will be partly cloudy each day this weekend. The temperature highs will be in the mid to high 70's on Friday and Sunday, dipping to the mid 60's on Saturday. The temperature lows will be in the mid 50's on Friday and Saturday, briefly dipping to the low 50's on Sunday morning. The winds will range from 5 - 10 mph on Friday and Sunday, and kick up to 10 - 20 mph on Saturday. And it's going to be a dry weekend with the humidity dropping from the mid 70's on Friday to 30%, then rising to between 50% - 60% Saturday, peaking around 70% Sunday morning before dropping down to 30% later in the day. Not a bad weather weekend overall. Enjoy.
Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 8 am - We had some computer issues which held us up. This is done and the attendant pages will be posted within the hour, assuming no further computer issues. We will also socially post links sometime Saturday via BSky.app, Facebook and X.com. Please Like or be-Friend us, to stay abreast of events, and obtain news related to your borough. This week we continue to strive toward providing a mix of weekly news posts.
Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in NYC
NYC & NYS Public Beaches _ Saturday - Sunday, May 23 - September 13, 2026 from 10 am to 6 pm - NYC & NYS Beaches Open for the Summer. Swimming not allowed when life guards are not present. For details see - https://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/beaches
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Now thru June 14, 2026 at various times and in various places - Canvassing for the Rent Guidelines Board Meeting. The Mamdani Administration is trying to mobilize community support to help make sure the Rent Guidelines Board holds the line [to zero%] in its annual decision regarding the size of the rent increase on the two million tenants who lives in rent stabilized housing in NYC. As the Mayor has repeatedly said in his speeches, he can't effect change without the help of the citizens of NYC.This began May 16, 2026. For details and to volunteer some of your time to this cause, see - Help Tell the Rent Guidelines Board that New Yorkers Support Mayor Mamdani's Effort to Keep Rent Increases to 0%. Or copy and paste this url - https://www.nyc.gov/content/organize/pages/get-involved
Holding _ Tuesday, May 12, 2026 beginning at 6 pm - Cracks in the YIMBY Consensus - on Zoom. This presentation explores whether we can upzone our way out of the affordability crisis. For details and to register [free] see - https://villagepreservation.my.site.com/s/event-detail?eventId=a1wQP000002odg9
Holding _ Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - Manhattan City Council Special Election District 3 Early Voting Ranked Choice Voting Results published. The special election results for NYC City Council representation of Hells Kitchen, Chelsea and the West Village was published. We'll post them either here over the weekend, or separately with one of the prior related reports.
Next Week.
Ferry Hawks Stadium in St. George _ Wednesday, June 3, 2026 from 10 am to 4 pm - Justice in Motion - at Staten Island University Hospital Community Park at 75 Richmond Terrace next to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. This is "... an innovative job fair and symposium that returns on with dozens of city agencies and community organizations looking to hire. Sponsored by the New York City Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice ...". CLICK this GOTHAMBUZZ MCAL link for details, including a url to the web page.
Saturday, June 13, 2026 is the last day you'll be able to Register to Vote in the NYC Primary on June 23, 2026. Applications must be received by the NY Board of Elections to be eligible to vote in this election.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our report, as well as other Weekend Things To Do in NYC This Month 2026 _ NYC events.
Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
Events & Things to do This Weekend & Next Week in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & Staten Island Events - Details Below
May 22, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
The photo above or at right was taken at a parade honoring those who have dedicated a part of their lives to defending the rest of us. This weekend, there are numerous events, honoring those who lost their lives in defense of our nation.
Sunrise 5.34 / 38 am. Sunset 8.13 / 07 pm. We're getting 14 hours & 40 minutes of sunlight, or five hours and 27 minutes more of sunlight than we were getting the week of the Winter Solstice, on December 21, 2025 when the sun rose at 7.18 am and the sun set at 4.31 pm. The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of this year, providing 9 hours and 13 minutes of sunlight in NYC.
Updated Early AM 5.23.26 _ NYC Weather - NYC Can Differ Slightly / Significantly vs TriState TV News Forecasts. There's a 75% chance of up to 1.25 inches of rain on Saturday, starting as early as around 11 am and extending into Sunday around 12 noon, with another .5 inch of rain. There's a 20% to 25% chance of a negligible amount of rain Monday. The temperature highs will hover between 60 to 65 all weekend, except Monday where it will rise to 70 degrees. The temperature lows will hover in the mid 50's to high 50's all weekend. The winds will range from 1 - 10 mph on Friday, 5 - [mostly] 10 mph Saturday & Sunday, and then back down to 1 - 5 mph Monday. The humidity will swing from 80% to 40% Friday, 60% to 95% Saturday, 95% to 80% Sunday and finally levelling off on Monday in the 60% range. It will be cloudy all days of the three day holiday weekend.
UPDATE _ Saturday, May 23, 2026 at 6.15 am - Done with the regular weekend post, as you can see. We have also posted Memorial Day parades and events separately below. The attendant pages will be posted shortly or within the hour. We will also socially post links sometime Saturday via BSky.app, Facebook and X.com. Please Like or be-Friend us, to stay abreast of events, and obtain news related to your borough. This week we continue to strive toward providing a mix of weekly news posts.
Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in NYC
* Editor's Note - No Fleet Week in NYC over the Memorial Day Weekend of 2026 - The traditional Fleet Week that New Yorkers and Brooklynites have become accustomed to accommodating for decades over the Memorial Day Weekend has been moved to the July 4th, 2026 week to synch up with celebrations of America's 250th Anniversary. Return to this site in late June / early July 2026 for details regarding Fleet Week 2026 in NYC.
NYC & NYS Public Beaches _ Saturday - Sunday, May 23 - September 13, 2026 from 10 am to 6 pm - NYC & NYS Beaches Open for the Summer. Swimming not allowed when life guards are not present. For details see - https://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/beaches
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May 16 - June 14, 2026 at various times and in various places - Canvassing for the Rent Guidelines Board Meeting. The Mamdani Administration is trying to mobilize community support to help make sure the Rent Guidelines Board holds the line [to zero%] in its annual decision regarding the size of the rent increase on the two million tenants who lives in rent stabilized housing in NYC. As the Mayor has repeatedly said in his speeches, he can't effect change without the help of the citizens of NYC. For details and to volunteer some of your time to this cause, see - Help Tell the Rent Guidelines Board that New Yorkers Support Mayor Mamdani's Effort to Keep Rent Increases to 0%. Or copy and paste this url - https://www.nyc.gov/content/organize/pages/get-involved
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 beginning at 6 pm - Cracks in the YIMBY Consensus - on Zoom. This presentation explores whether we can upzone our way out of the affordability crisis. For details and to register [free] see - https://villagepreservation.my.site.com/s/event-detail?eventId=a1wQP000002odg9
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - Manhattan City Council Special Election District 3 Early Voting Ranked Choice Voting Results published. The special election results for NYC City Council representation of Hells Kitchen, Chelsea and the West Village was published. We'll post them either here over the weekend, or separately with one of the prior related reports.
Next Week.
Ferry Hawks Stadium in St. George _ Wednesday, June 3, 2026 from 10 am to 4 pm - Justice in Motion - at Staten Island University Hospital Community Park at 75 Richmond Terrace next to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. This is "... an innovative job fair and symposium that returns on with dozens of city agencies and community organizations looking to hire. Sponsored by the New York City Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice ...". CLICK this GOTHAMBUZZ MCAL link for details, including a url to the web page.
Saturday, June 13, 2026 is the last day you'll be able to Register to Vote in the NYC Primary on June 23, 2026. Applications must be received by the NY Board of Elections to be eligible to vote in this election.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our report, as well as other Weekend Things To Do in NYC This Month 2026 _ NYC events.
Things To Do Memorial Day Weekend in NYC - Memorial Day Weekend Events NYC
Memorial Day Weekend Things To Do in NYC
Things To Do in NYC over the Memorial Day Weekend
May 22, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / Gotham Buzz NYC.
Memorial Day weekend is almost here.
NYC Weather Forecast as of 5.21.26. There's a 75% chance of up to 1.25 inches of rain on Saturday, starting sometime between 1 and 5 pm and extending into Sunday, with another .25 to .5 inch of rain, ending sometime between 1 and 4 pm. There's a 20% to 40% chance of a negligible amount of rain Monday. The temperature highs will hover between 60 to 65 all weekend, except Monday where it will rise to 70 degrees. The temperature lows will hover in the mid 50's to high 50's all weekend. The winds will range from 1 - 10 mph on Friday, 5 - [mostly] 10 mph Saturday & Sunday, and then back down to 1 - 5 mph Monday. The humidity will swing wildly all weekend, from 80% to 40% Friday, 60% to 95% Saturday, 95% to 80% Sunday and finally levelling off on Monday in the 60% range. It will be cloudy all days of the three day holiday weekend.
CLICK here for links to things to do in NYC on Memorial Day Weekend in all five boroughs / Memorial Day events NYC.
NYC Memorial Day Parades - All 5 Boros Memorial Day Parades Manhattan Brooklyn Queens Bronx Staten Island NYC
NYC Memorial Day Parades in All 5 Boroughs of NYC 2026
Memorial Day Parades in All 5 Boroughs of NYC - Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx & Staten Island
May 22, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Parades & Holidays / Gotham Buzz NYC.
This report details a number of upcoming Memorial Day Weekend parades in all five boroughs of NYC, including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.
NYC Weather Forecast as of 5.21.26. There's a 75% chance of up to 1.25 inches of rain on Saturday, starting sometime between 1 and 5 pm and extending into Sunday, with another .25 to .5 inch of rain, ending sometime between 1 and 4 pm. There's a 20% to 40% chance of a negligible amount of rain Monday. The temperature highs will hover between 60 to 65 all weekend, except Monday where it will rise to 70 degrees. The temperature lows will hover in the mid 50's to high 50's all weekend. The winds will range from 1 - 10 mph on Friday, 5 - [mostly] 10 mph Saturday & Sunday, and then back down to 1 - 5 mph Monday. The humidity will swing wildly all weekend, from 80% to 40% Friday, 60% to 95% Saturday, 95% to 80% Sunday and finally levelling off on Monday in the 60% range. It will be cloudy all days of the three day holiday weekend.
- CLICK here for our report on Memorial Day Parades in NYC in all 5 Boroughs including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and Staten Island NYC.
Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
Events & Things to do This Weekend & Next Week in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & Staten Island Events - Details Below
May 15, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
The photo above or at right was taken at a Dance Parade held some years ago. The parade returns this weekend. See details below.
Sunrise 5.38 am. Sunset 8.07 pm. We're getting 14 hours & 30 minutes of sunlight, or five hours and 17 minutes more of sunlight than we were getting the week of the Winter Solstice, on December 21, 2025 when the sun rose at 7.18 am and the sun set at 4.31 pm. The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of this year, providing 9 hours and 13 minutes of sunlight in NYC.
NYC Weather - NYC Can Differ Slightly / Significantly vs TriState TV News Forecasts. No rain is in the forecast this weekend. All weekend the temperature highs will be 80's. The temperature lows will be 60's. The humidity will swing wildly on Saturday from 100% to 30% and on Sunday from 80% to 40%. Winds are expected to range from 5 to 10 mph through the weekend. All tolled, a very nice spring weekend.
UPDATE _ Saturday, May 16, 2026 at 5.30 am - Done and including attendant pages which will be posted following this. We will also socially post links sometime Saturday via BSky.app, Facebook and X.com. Please Like or be-Friend us, to stay abreast of events, and obtain news related to your borough. This week we continue to strive toward providing a mix of weekly news posts.
Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in NYC
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May 16 - June 14, 2026 at various times and in various places - Canvassing for the Rent Guidelines Board Meeting. The Mamdani Administration is trying to mobilize community support to help make sure the Rent Guidelines Board holds the line [to zero%] in its annual decision regarding the size of the rent increase on the two million tenants who lives in rent stabilized housing in NYC. As the Mayor has repeatedly said in his speeches, he can't effect change without the help of the citizens of NYC. For details and to volunteer some of your time to this cause, see - Help Tell the Rent Guidelines Board that New Yorkers Support Mayor Mamdani's Effort to Keep Rent Increases to 0%. Or copy and paste this url - https://www.nyc.gov/content/organize/pages/get-involved
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 beginning at 6 pm - Cracks in the YIMBY Consensus - on Zoom. This presentation explores whether we can upzone our way out of the affordability crisis. For details and to register [free] see - https://villagepreservation.my.site.com/s/event-detail?eventId=a1wQP000002odg9
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - Manhattan City Council Special Election District 3 Early Voting Ranked Choice Voting Results published. The special election results for NYC City Council representation of Hells Kitchen, Chelsea and the West Village was published. We'll post them either here over the weekend, or separately with one of the prior related reports.
Saturday, June 13, 2026 is the last day you'll be able to Register to Vote in the NYC Primary on June 23, 2026. Applications must be received by the NY Board of Elections to be eligible to vote in this election.
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NYC Mothers Day Restaurants - Moms Day Brunches Lunches Dinners in NYC Manhattan Brooklyn Queens Bronx & Staten Island
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Things to do Last Month NYC 2026 - NYC Events All 5 Boroughs This Month
Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
AIPAD, Macy's Flower Show, Greek Independence & Sikh Parades Manhattan; Reelabilities Film Fest & Car Free Streets Earth Day in all 5 Boros, Museum Estate Sale on Staten Island, as well as Other Spring Sales and Things to do This Weekend in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & Staten Island Events
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Updated April 17, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
The photo above or at right was taken last weekend across from the Fashion Institute of Technology [aka FIT] at West 27th Street and 8th Avenue in Chelsea.
Saturday, April 18, 2026 from 10 am to 6 pm - MoMA PS1 50th Anniversary Block Party. This is the opening weekend of a new exhibit entitled Greater New York in celebration of the museum's 50th anniversary. Numerous cultural and community organizations will be there to participate, including some food and merchandise vendors, including a FAD market. Advanced registration is closed but they are trying to accommodate walk up registration. For details see - https://www.momaps1.org/en/events/741-50th-anniversary-block-party
Sunrise 6.04 am. Sunset 7.44 pm. We're getting 13 hours & 41 minutes of sunlight, or four hours and 28 minutes more of sunlight than we were getting the week of the Winter Solstice, on December 21, 2025 when the sun rose at 7.18 am and the sun set at 4.31 pm. The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of this year, providing 9 hours and 13 minutes of sunlight in NYC.
NYC Weather - NYC Can Differ Slightly / Significantly vs TriState TV News Forecasts. The temperature highs will be in the mid 60's on Friday, descending to the low 50's on Saturday and Sunday. The temperature lows will be in the mid 50's Friday, descending into the low 40's on Saturday & Sunday. About 1 to 2 inches of rain is expected starting Saturday late morning and ending Sunday late morning. The humidity will range from 30% to 90% on Friday, and between 65% and 95% on both Saturday and Sunday. Winds are expected to range from 5 to 10 mph, favoring the high side of that range all weekend.
Friday, April 24, 2026 at 11.30 pm - Done except the attendant pages, which we'll complete later tonight. We will also socially post links either late Friday or sometime Saturday via BSky.app, Facebook and X.com. Please Like or be-Friend us, to stay abreast of events, and obtain news related to your borough. This week we begin enhancing weekly news posts.
Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in NYC
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 was Earth Day. Some celebrations, including the one below, continue this weekend.
Saturday, April 25, 2026 from 10 am to 4 pm is Car-Free Streets Day. Car free streets in NYC on Saturday, April 25, 2026 begins an hour earlier and ends an hour later for mototorists from 9 am to 5 pm. Events will take place from 10 am to 4 pm. And Citi Bike is offering free rides at the same time. For specific streets and the opening / closing times of the car-free streets to which this applies, in all five boroughs see - https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2026/nyc-dot-announces-return-of-car-free-earth-day-celebration.shtml
NYC _ Thursday - Thursday, April 23 - 30, 2026 - Reelabilities Film Fest - at JCC Marlene Meyerson in Manhattan, but also at Bronx River Arts Center in the Bronx, JCC on Staten Island, Nitehawk Cinema in Prospect Park in Brooklyn; as well as numerous other venues in Manhattan, including but not limited to Lincoln Center, the New School, and Maysles in West Harlem. For details and $0 - $50+ tickets see - https://reelabilities.org/newyork/schedule
Saturday, June 13, 2026 is the last day you'll be able to Register to Vote in the NYC Primary on June 23, 2026. Applications must be received by the NY Board of Elections to be eligible to vote in this election.
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January 17, 2026 / Things To Do NYC / Gotham Buzz.
We're working diligently to finish up our year end cleaing and new year planning & preparations. We had hoped to complete this effort by now, but it's taken a bit longer because we want to do it right. And we're incorporating old and new capabilities which we either haven't used in a long while, or haven't used at all. So stay tuned, as we hope to make it worth your while.
So we're going to punt on putting together much for this weekend, other than provide what we'd done previously, as below. We hope to / expect to resume our normal publishing next weekend. Thanks for your understanding and have a nice weekend.
Emergency Action, Pack The Court!
Stop the Out of State Billionaire Oligarchs NYC Public Land Grab
MidtownSouthCC.org sent us the following:
We need to show the judge the overwhelming support for the tenants’ and that public housing needs to be protected! Join us Wednesday, January 14, 2026 — 9AM at 71 Thomas Street. The city, @ebottcher, @essence.development & @relatedcos plan to plan to raze 24 public housing buildings and displace more than 3,000 tenants at Chelsea Addition & Fulton 11. Chelsea Addition is made entirely of senior tenants. This is a greedy land grab designed to benefit wealthy developers. They are lying to residents, trying to force them to accept their eviction from their homes. The city & big developers plan on adding 2450 luxury apartments where Chelsea NYCHA buildings would be demolished. Allowing this to happen would set a dangerous precedent for ALL NYCHA housing in New York City and increase the cost of living for ALL New Yorkers.
Following this meeting there's a Press Conference on the same day, Wednesday, January 14, 2025 — 2PM at Hudson Guild – 441 West 26th Street, Between 9th and 10th.
See a section we started and are still working on - Bloomberg and the Adams Administrations enabled Huge Public Land Grabs at Discount Prices to NYC Real Estate Oligarchs, as well as our Audience commentary in our OpEd section [use link from top tool bar under Politics & Government].
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New York City Local News _ Weekly News NYC
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Important Reports and Information, You'll Not Find Much of on Billionaire TV News
Updated May 8, 2026v. Originated 9.27.25 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / NYC Politics / New York City News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
'TV News' is a misnomer, as these days they do little reporting about the important news stories of the day. Instead they allow themselves to be led around by top government officials, who use them to distract their viewing audiences from what's really going on in government, by spinning tales of nonsense - like the United Nations escalator conspiracy, the Haitian immigrants eating dogs and cats in Ohio, and the like.
TV News no longer appears to be generally staffed by competent, dedicated, truth-seeking newspeople, but instead by teleprompter reading actors and models. TV News whittles away their audiences' precious time by showing them what seem the same repetitive police crime videos and social media accident videos. TV News is also guilty of broadcasting long-winded weather reports [do they really think people need to spend ten minutes to find out what the temperature, wind, humidity and precipitation will be tomorrow?]. They sprinkle the crime, accident and weather reporting with cleverly disguised advertorials for their corral of signed celebrities, their TV syndicated or related shows, and their licensed music and movies, which they present as the news.
So, in the interest of community service, we've decided to provide our audience with short reports, with links to sources we find reliable, of the important stories we think are not well covered, or not properly covered by billionaire TV News - if covered at all. We hope you'll appreciate our efforts to inform you. And if you do, please spread the word, so that your friends and family will start migrating their news consumption from billionaire TV News to the web. It's worth noting that the six TV Network News organizations are controlled by billionaires, family and their friends; and they're using TV News and sometimes their other shows, to manipulate voters' perceptions,
This is not your parents or grandparents TV News, which ended sometime around Walter Cronkite's retirement in the early 1980's when TV News reliably informed Americans about the real news stories of the day. At that time TV News was reporting stories that were were important to know and understand as participants in our democracy, in order to stay informed of issues so that we the people, and the representatives we selected, would collectively and communally address them.
We've started this news section in late September / early October 2025 and had been updating weekly until about mid November 2025, when we hit some capacity road blocks. It's mid April 2026, and we're embarking on this effort again, hoping that the remedies we put in place over the winter, will enable us to continue, uninterrupted, going forward.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our New York City News _ Local NYC News Updates.
This begins the local news feed _ 4.16.26 & Updated 5.8.26
New York City News - NYC News Local Reports
May 8, 2026 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / NYC Politics / New York City News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
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*** What Follows was posted Week Ending 4.16.26 & Updated 5.8.26
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Mayor Mamdani's First 100 days - April 13, 2026
* Here's Lookin' at You, Kid
Mamdani Talks about the First 100 Days & the Next 1360 to Come
April 13, 2026 / Queens Neighborhood News & History NYC / Queens News NYC / Queens Politics Government & Media NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Queens Buzz NYC.
Late Sunday afternoon I headed over to the Knockdown Center, located off Flushing Avenue in Maspeth. Maspeth is a neighborhood located on the Brooklyn / Queens border, and a bit of an outpost in a transportation desert, where some of NYC's manufacturing, warehouses and distribution centers are located.
I was on my way to Mayor Mamdani's Press Conference / public speech, where he planned to talk about his first 100 days in office as the Mayor of NYC.
In the photo at right, stand NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and surprise honorary guest, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, at the press event held by the Mayor's Office on Sunday, April 12, 2026 in Maspeth, NYC.
Truly Great Leaders are Humble, Respectful, Determined & Learn-ed
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Mamdani is a Muslim American and Sanders is a Jewish American. And one of the things that I find most interesting, is that these two - instead of fighting each other - they have teamed up, in an effort to try to solve some of the real significant problems facing New York City and America. This is the approach America has taken in the past, and hopefully will return to taking in the future.
Happily, but also sadly, both men are exceptions - to the kind of weak, weak-minded, and apparently corrupt leadership, that we currently have in the federal government, and that up until a bit more than three months ago, we also had in NYC City Hall.
Thankfully, Mamdani and Sanders are not exceptions to the kind of high quality leadership America has had in the past. We've been fortunate to have had intelligent, selfless leadership, but that didn't happen on its own. In the past American voters were diligent and wise enough to choose good leaders, because they invested the time in making the right choices, and also made the right choices in selecting the information sources they relied upon to obtain their voting information. The making of intelligent decisions by the American electorate, gradually slipped away over the past 60 years, as TV increasingly became the dominant source of Americans' news, and thus also their voting information. It's been a long slippery slope, with nasty fiscal and other consquences, that has brought us to the state of the City and Union today.
Prior to the arrival of TV News, American voters read the newspapers, run by lots of different people, espousing many different points of view, which the electorate discussed amongst themselves, prior to voting. Thus Americans, back in the day, elected and were led by, wise and caring leaders, representing an an increasingly diverse population, which is what had made America a great nation. Perhaps we're on the cusp of a resurgence of that sort of informed electorate decision making, as voters migrate their news consumption from billionaire TV news to the numerous, varied information sources on the web. Currently just five to six billionaires control the corporations broadcasting TV news.
Later this week I'm going to take you into the Mayor's 100 Day Press Conference, and give you a closer look at things, beyond the shallow billionaire TV News reports and / or the dishonest headlines you may have already seen, if you read billionaire R. Murdoch's NY Post. The NY Post is easily one of the most dishonest newspapers in both NYC & the USA*, as Rupert Murdoch uses it to manipulate voters' perceptions, so that they vote for his favored candidates [like Trump], who will give Murdoch and other billionaires huge tax breaks, funded by debt dumped on your children, grandchildren, and future generations, while simultaneously cutting government services, like education and healthcare, to boot. This is not just thoroughly un-American, it's morally and ethically reprehensible.
Stay tuned, and in the meantime have a nice week.
* This assessment is based on my observations of the NY Post from 2016 - 2026.
Special Election Begins April 18, 2026 in District 3 in Manhattan
Special Election Underway in NYC City Council District 3
April 18 & 19, 2026 / Manhattan Neighborhoods & History NYC / Manhattan Politics & Government / Manhattan News NYC / Manhattan Buzz NYC / News Analysis & Opinion.
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On Saturday morning, April 18, 2026, I headed over to Chelsea to attend an electioneering event hosted by one of the special election NYC council candidates for District 3. Her name is Layla Law-Gisiko.
In the photo above or at right, Layla Law-Gisiko, candidate for NYC Council District 3, is shown speaking at a get-out-the-vote rally in Chelsea. Early voting has already started and ends Sunday, and the special election day is Tuesday, April 28, 2026. If you found this informative, please share. If you live in NYC council District 3 - here's a link to find your poll place / obtain NYC voting information.
How I Met and Got to Know Layla Law-Gisiko
I had electronically met [meaning via emails and zoom conferences] Layla about three years ago, while covering Eric Adams' and the real estate development corporations' City of Yes legislation. We got to know each other a bit while the City of Yes made its way through the legislative process, rolling back decades of New Yorkers' urban activism, which had placed guide rails on developers and developments in NYC.
Layla and I exchanged information, and Manhattan Buzz posted some of her research and perspectives on things to help keep people informed. Manhattan Buzz also filed its own reports about some of Layla's informative conferences related to the City of Yes, as well as posting our own / additional reports about what was in the 1,000 plus page developer crafted legislation.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our report on the candidates running for the District 3 NYC Council Special Election.
Mamdani Inauguration Day - January 1, 2026
Mamdani Mayoral Inauguration Day, as Seen from the Nosebleeds
The Bitter Cold didn't Nip the Warmth of Our New Mayor on his Big Day
January 1, 2026 / Manhattan Neighborhoods & History NYC / Queens News NYC / Queens Politics Government & Media NYC / Queens Buzz NYC.
I'll be the first to admit that the photos shown herein, aren't likely to win any awards. But I never take photographs or write reports to win awards. I take and write them to share with our readers what's going on in our fair city, as seen by one of their own - a fellow member of the plebeian citizenry of NYC. And I also report on things, with an eye toward posterity.
In the photo at right, Zohran Mamdani and Rama Duwaji are shown walking out of City Hall and onto the steps of the political public stage on January 1, 2026. Mamdani was inaugurated privately, earlier in the day, by NYS Attorney General Letitia James. And he would be inaugurated again, cermoniously, by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, about an hour after this photo was taken.
As I was freezing my buns off in the bitter cold outside of City Hall, waiting for Mamdani to appear and give his speech, my thoughts matched the chilly bitterness of the season. The biting 20 mph+ wind gusts & the well below freezing temperatures, didn't thaw out my anger, as some long-winded speakers seemed to ignore the fact that this was Zohran's day - not theirs. And that those of us in attendance, had been waiting outside on the open streets of south Manhattan, with the biting winds coming in from the harbor, for hours.
Eventually my camera succumbed to the cold, as my battery, having been fully charged earlier this morning died. Thankfully, it was after I got a couple of photos of our new Mayor and his wife. I interpreted the battery dying, as god's invisible message, giving me permission to go home, before I froze to death.
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In the photo above or at right you can see a number of well known, former and current, NYC and NYS government officials. Starting from the first row in the lower left corner, wearing a green coat is Governor Kathy Hochul, to her right is NYS Attorney General Letitia James, fashionably dressed in a camel-colored coat wearing a beret, to her right is U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez in a dark coat and to her right are U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and his wife. Above and just right of Sanders is former Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is standing to the right of former Mayor Adams [his head is buried underneath a newsie cap] and his friend, Tracey Collins. U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, who did not endorse Mamdani, is on Adams' left.
I shambled to the subway station at City Hall, passing through the garrison of NYPD officers who were also enduring the piercing winds, and numbing and bone chilling cold. They seemed better dressed than I for the weather, as I'd not attended such a frigid, hours-long, outdoor event, since the January 5, 1985 NFL Playoff game between the NY Giants and Chicago Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago.
Today, at City Hall in NYC, it was 27 degrees, with 14 - 16 mph wind gusts, and a wind chill temperature that ranged from 8 - 18 degrees. As I had no cap, and nothing to break the wind from coming through my jacket and jersey, my arms and legs started shivering continuously, before I decided to go home.
On the subway my fingers and toes began to thaw. At first there was some pain as the blood started circulating through them, bringing back the warmth they had recently lost. The same thawing began to come over me mentally, as I pondered my own life on the ride home, as I thought about our new Mayor.
Zohran Mamdani's Inauguration Speech January 1, 2026 in Fotos
One of the things that struck me is that as Zohran is an immigrant, who was born on the other side of the world in Uganda, in Africa; he doesn't just see himself in the context of us 8.5 million New Yorkers who live here, nor does he limit his view of us collectively to the 342 million Americans we are, but rather sees us as a plantery whole of 8.3 billion Earthlings, of which NYC represents 1/10th of 1% of the planet population.
What Mamdani had to say and some context for it follows.
- CLICK here to view the rest of our report on the Inauguration of Zohan Mamdani at City Hall in NYC on January 1, 2026 including photos.
* Did the NYS Gaming Commission Make a Mockery of the Law?
NYS Gaming Commission to Make Final Vote on NYC Casinos Today
December 15, 2025 / NYC Issues / NYC Business / Queens News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.
With the exception of the headline and paragraph update below, the rest of this was posted before the NYS Gaming Commission vote noted above. This report represents an important back story about how TV news and NYC and NYS government officials failed their communities. It's also a report about what appears to be letting a predatory fox into the community chicken coop.
Update _ All 3 Downstate NYC Casinos Approved by NYS
Update 12.15.25 Post Vote. The NYS casino licenses approved include Ballys in the Bronx, an expansion of Resorts World Casino in Queens, and Steve SAC Capital Cohen's Metropolitan Park at Flushing Meadows Corona Park [see story below].
Resumption of original report.
Today at 1 pm, the NYS Gaming Commission is expected to vote on the final approvals of NYS casino licenses in New York City. Bally's in the Bronx and Metropolitan Park licenses will be voted upon. The final vote, according to a Spectrum News report today, is to address the following, " ... The commission is expected to ratify the board's recommendation Monday after one final review of each applicant's ethical and financial qualifications before issuing the licenses ...".
In the photo above or at right you can see community members trying to make their voices heard in the Corona neighborhood in Queens. The protesters oppose the Metropolitan Park Casino planned which will, in essence takeover some of the parkland in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. But you won't hear about this on the corporate billionaire TV News Networks, because they appear to be protecting the interests of one of their own, by not reporting this to the community.
Nowhere in Spectrum New reports did I find any discussion of Steve Cohen's SAC Capital being involved in the largest insider trading scandal in modern history involving a hedge fund. Steve Cohen named the firm he founded, SAC Capital, after himself - Steve A. Cohen. The firm was fined $1.8 BILLION. Cohen himself was not found guilty in the courts, but journalists covering the story believed that he had fostered a 'culture of corruption'. Based on how the NY Mets ball club has conducted itself since Cohen took over - that description may also apply to them.
Apparently Ethics Don't Seem to Matter Anymore - Just $$$
So, will the NYS Gaming Commission, make a mockery of the importance of ethical considerations, in the disposition of gaming licenses, by awarding Steve Cohen a license? Given how corrupt our municipal [Adams] and state governments [Cuomo √ | Hochul ?] appear to have functioned recently, I'll bet they don't give a damn. But we'll find out later today.
Here are a few related links. The third link will take you to a report by NY Magazine goes to the heart of the possible motivating forces behind the actions of campaign funded government officials, the fourth link is a very short video discussing how Steve Cohen appeared to dodge conviction in the courts, and the fifth link is to an earlier report on the back story we did on Steve SAC Capital Cohen's 'Black Edge'.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our report on NYS Gaming Commission seems to Ignore Ethics Section of the Law in Approving Steve SAC Capital Cohen's Metropolitan Park Casino in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens NYC.
How did Steve Cohen's Casino License Bid Get this Far?
Did Billionaire Network TV News, Ignore Cohen's SAC Capital Insider Trading History, in Order to Enable the Fellow Billionaire to Keep Gaming Us & the System?
December 1, 2025 / NYC Business / NYC Politics & Government / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
SAC [Steve A. Cohen] Capital
Pleads Guilty to the Largest Insider Trading Scandal in Modern History
The short story on Steve Cohen is that in 1992 he founded a company that operated a number of hedge funds. He was so proud of it, that he put his name on it - SAC Capital - which is short for Steve A. Cohen Capital. Fast forward less than 20 years to 2010 and the SEC is investigating SAC Capital associates for insider trading. Fast forward another three years and SAC Capital has paid $1.8 billion and has pleaded guilty to insider-trading charges. It's one of the biggest insider trading scandals in modern history and the largest involving a hedge fund.
For details on the Steven A. Cohen Capital Insider Trading case see -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.A.C._Capital_Advisors
Did Cohen Foster a Culture of Corruption at SAC?
Cohen himself never personally pleaded guilty, in part because it's difficult to prove scienter - which is a legal term for intent or knowledge of wrongdoing. But that said, the Steve A. Cohen Capital firm, was founded by and run by Cohen for 20 years. And one of Cohen's high school chums, Michael Steinberg, became one of SAC's most senior portfolio managers. Steinberg was cited by one of his analysts, Horvath, as essentially telling Horvath to seek out non-public information, that they could trade on, which in essence is insider trading.
And while the Steven A. Cohen Capital firm says they take compliance with regulations seriously, a report by American University Business Law Review notes that SAC refused to give them even one example of its refusal to hire someone because of compliance concerns. On the other hand, the Steven A. Cohen Capital firm did hire people, such as Richard S. Lee, who was known to be a risk, as he had just been fired by a Chicago firm for altering his holdings in their accounting system on his first day on the job. Even SAC Capital Legal had reportedly advised against hiring him. Lee eventually ended up as one of the firm's employees who was convicted.
For further details on Cohen's alleged malfeasance use the following links.
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=aublr
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hedge-fund-manager-steven-cohen-settles-with-commodities-agency
- CLICK here for the rest of the story, including Cohen's management of the NY Mets - How did Steve Cohen of SAC Capital get Awarded a License for Metropolitan Park Casino Queens?
Stay Tuned. More & More Expansive Updates coming soon.
OLD _ Plse Ignore _ Yankees Clinch Playoff Berth in the MLB Playoffs
Update _ Thursday, October 9, 2025 / Bronx Politics / Bronx News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Bronx Buzz NYC.
This ends the local news feed _ 4.16.26 / 5.8.26
- CLICK here to read the rest of our _ New York City News _ Local NYC News Updates.
New York City News _ UN National News Updates NYC
NYC News - UN & National News Weekly Reports
Important Reports and Information, You'll Not Find Much of on Billionaire TV News
May 7, 2026 v. Originated 9.27.25 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / NYC Politics / New York City News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
'TV News' is a misnomer, as these days they do little reporting about the important news stories of the day. Instead they allow themselves to be led around by top government officials, who use them to distract their viewing audiences from what's really going on in government, by spinning tales of nonsense - like the United Nations escalator conspiracy, the Haitian immigrants eating dogs and cats in Ohio, and the like.
Billionaire controlled Network TV News no longer appears to be generally staffed by competent, dedicated, truth-seeking newspeople, but instead by teleprompter reading actors and models. TV News whittles away their audiences' precious time by showing them what seem the same repetitive police crime videos and social media accident videos. Billionaire Network TV News is also guilty of broadcasting long-winded weather reports [do they really think people need to spend ten minutes to find out what the temperature, wind, humidity and precipitation will be tomorrow?]. They sprinkle the crime, accident and weather reporting with cleverly disguised advertorials for their corral of signed celebrities, their TV syndicated or related shows, and their licensed music and movies, which they present as the news.
So, in the interest of community service, we've decided to provide our audience with short reports, with links to sources we find reliable, of the important stories we think are not well covered, or not properly covered by billionaire TV News - if covered at all. We hope you'll appreciate our efforts to inform you. And if you do, please spread the word, so that your friends and family will start migrating their news consumption from billionaire TV News to the web. It's worth noting that the six TV Network News organizations are controlled by billionaires, family and their friends; and they're using TV News and sometimes their other shows, to manipulate voters' perceptions,
This is not your parents or grandparents TV News, which ended sometime around Walter Cronkite's retirement in the early 1980's when TV News reliably informed Americans about the real news stories of the day. At that time TV News was reporting stories that were were important to know and understand as participants in our democracy, in order to stay informed of issues so that we the people, and the representatives we selected, would collectively and communally address them.
We've started this news section in late September / early October 2025 and had been updating weekly until about mid November 2025, when we hit some capacity road blocks. It's mid April 2026, and we're embarking on this effort again, hoping that the remedies we put in place over the winter, will enable us to continue, uninterrupted, going forward.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our New York City News _ UN & National News Reports NYC.
This begins the national news feed _ 5.7.26
New York City News - UN & National News Weekly Reports
May 7, 2026 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / NYC Politics / New York City News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our New York City News _ UN & National News Updates NYC.
*** What Follows was posted Week Ending May 7, 2026
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Trump's Long-winded Speech
Ignores the State of a Faltering Union
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I don't have the time to do Trump's State of the Union true justice. But I can't sit by and say nothing, as TV News has already done a good job of saying a lot of nothing, that's worthy of note.
Trump, spent two hours, delivering his same, old, tired, manipulative, bigoted trash, peppered with so many falsehoods, deceits and outright lies, that even PBS had trouble keeping up with them. And the failed billionaire controlled TV News networks didn't even try.
State of the Union 2026
Trump's Address was Riddled with Key Omissions
What Trump Didn't Talk about, is at Least as Important as What he Did Talk About
There wasn't anything new, worth noting in Trump's State of the Union [aka SOTU] speech except the new people and faces he used to try to direct attention away from, that:
1) Donald J. Trump's name reportedly appears hundreds of thousands of times, in the unredacted Epstein pedo-files,
2) little progress made on the economy - unless you believe his Fox News style distortions,
3) little achieved on healthcare as the erection of a website selling prescription drugs, reportedly doesn't make much difference to Americans who buy rx drugs [stock prices of drug companies went up after Donald J. Trump told them how he was 'cracking down' on them],
4) DOGE failed to reduce spending and that prior to Trump becoming president again, there wasn't the 'corruption, waste and abuse' Trump claimed, but by the time Trump leaves office, he will be primarily responsible for about a third to a half of America's $40+ trillion of debt which has been dumped [in multiple acts of cowardice by Republican Presidents and the Republican Party] on America's children and unborns in order to further enrich some of the richest people on the planet,
5) a couple of Hispanic Americans from Texas, working for ICE, put ten bullets [looked like murder] in a white citizen and resident of Minnesota in his own neighborhood as he was helping a woman protester the ICE agents had pushed to the ground, nor about the shooting [looked like murder] of Renee Macklin Goode, also a naturalized white American citizen from Minneapolis, nor numerous other deaths, as well as beatings and pepper spraying of other American citizens and immigrants - both legal and illegal - who have suffered at the hands of Kristi Noem's ICE agency,
6) the bombings by Pete Hegseth's Department of War of fishing boats in the Caribbean and Pacific in what also looked like the murder of innocents and a war crime,
7) the incredible turbulence in the stock market, the volatility of which Trump and members of his Administration appeared to trade on, with Inside information, due to Trump's erratic decisions regarding tariffs on / off / up / down statements,
8) Trump and Republicans included a statute prohibiting states from exercising their rights on limiting the encroachment of AI into everything,
9) little done vis-a-vis China,
10) Trump and Little Marco Rubio have been betraying Ukraine and Europe vis-a-vis the Russians [Bill Gates admitted to some Russian co-mingling and yet Donald J. Trump denies he did anything - not unlike how he denied raping E. Jean Carroll, the Democratic Hoax Epstein pedo-files, money laundering at his casinos, cheating his workers and contractors out of their pay, inciting the January 6th Insurrection, and so forth,
11) Trump has turned back the clock on slowing or preventing the impending crisis soon coming from Climate Change with the last few years being the warmest and driest on human record,
12) the real intent of his Voter ID legislation which is to disenfranchise women [because of marriage name changes] and the poor [no car = no driver's license] nor that voting fraud by illegals is essentially ZERO even according the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation,
13) he lied a blue streak about how 'great' things are in the American economy since he took office,
14) his Administration is [possible to very likely?] becoming the most corrupt in American history, which includes insider trading, personal use of government property by numerous cabinet members, accepting bribes for U.S. taxpayer funded military technology secrets or equipment, real estate deals done with the possibly bribing nations, crypto corruption, suing the IRS for $10 billion,
15) he's been pardoning numerous criminals, not unlike himself and
16) why he seems to be planning to start a war with Iran.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our report about all of the important issues Donald J. Trump's State of the Union Speech 2026 didn't address.
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ICE Shoots & Kills a Second U.S. Citizen in Minneapolis
Is Trump's ICE, Recruiting Deviants who Commit Violent Crimes Against the American Public, in Order to Make All Americans Submit to Trump's Will?
January 24, 2026 / U.S. National Issues / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.
Does Donald Trump really expect us to believe that ICE is protecting us, when they are shooting and killing U.S. citizens?
Editor's Note. Please note that ICE agents do not appear to be as well trained, or as disciplined as other law enforcement personnel in the U.S. Furthermore, since Trump took office, it has been reported that ICE recruiting practices are failing to properly screen and background check their applicants, some or even many of whose backgrounds should raise red flags such as affiliations with white supremacist groups such as the KKK and Nazis. ICE reportedly puts these new recruits on the streets without full training by historical norms. And under Trump, ICE leadership appears to employ legally questionable practices in dealing with the public using questionable home search entry practices as well as spraying chemical agents in peaceful protesters faces. For details see this 6 minute video on CBC.
You're not likely to find this on TV News, whose news teams read the billionaires' teleprompter-fed narratives, while modeling the news distractions, instead of doing the hard work of investigatining, analyzing and presenting the real news.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7059189?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
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All state and municipal governments should protect their citizens from ICE, who frequently resemble thugs in viral videos, by requiring no masks for any law enforcement without a court order, body cameras worn at all times, and must be turned on for any interactions with the public or targets, and published guidelines, on when beating, spraying and shooting to kill American citizens is permitted, as we saw ICE agents do to Alex Pretti in the video - click on graphic below or at right.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/minute-minute-timeline-fatal-shooting-alex-pretti-federal/story?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&id=129547199
- CLICK here to read our report about Alex Pretti Shooting in Minneapolis & Donald Trump's Psychological Tendencies Toward Violence.
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* Was ICE Justifiably Enforcing the Law when it Committed a Very Public Killing?
See and Judge for Yourself, Whether Trump is Using ICE to Desensitize the American Public to the Government Use of Violence Against Any Human, Regardless of Citizenship
January 8, 2026 / National News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.
Here's a link to an video by the Minneapolis Star & Tribune [on 1/11/26 added a second video link to the NYT coverage of the shooting which provides even more context] where they provide video of the incident and context. The videos allow you can see and judge for yourself whether the ICE agent's firing of two shots, killing the driver of the car, Renee Macklin Good, who was an American citizen and mother of three, was the use necessary lethal force. Or, whether it was an unjustified, cold blooded murder by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, a member of the Trump Administration, which they now appear to be covering up with the help of Fox and the other billionaire owned TV News outlets.
This was the first link we posted on Thursday, January 8, 2026.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G-s0AFakl0o
This link is an update posted on Saturday, January 11, 2026, providing a more complete picture with multiple video angles by the NYT showing quite clearly that 'the president' and 'the vice president' and the ICE lady, Kristi Noem, mischaracterized or even lied about what happened.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html?smid=url-share
CLICK ON FOTO LINK to see shooting video.
Uptick in Violent and Fatal Events in Which Trump's ICE is Involved
It's worth mentioning that ICE agents have killed at least 9 people within the past year, including two American citizens. Additionally about 32 people died in ICE Detention Centers this past year. Since Trump took office Americans support of ICE has fallen from a favorability of +16% to -14% today, with 52% of Americans now disapproving of how the Trump / Noem ICE agency is doing its job. Some detractors are compariing ICE and their detention centers to the Nazis.
The ICE Officer did not Appear to Follow Correct Procedures ... Again
The ICE Officer, Jonathan Ross, who reportedly shot the Minneapolis mother, Renee Macklin Good, appears to have a history of not following proper law enforcement procedure when apprehending suspects or detainees, as Ross had an incident in June 2025, where he was significantly injured because he did not follow proper procedures when approaching a suspects vehicle.
Per law enforcement training, an officer is never supposed to reach inside of a vehicle, because it puts them at risk of injury. Furthermore an officer is not supposed to position themselves in front of a vehicle to block it, for the same reason. In June of 2025 Ross broke the window of the car of a suspect, and stuck his arm inside the window. The suspect, Juan Munoz-Guatemala, drove off, dragging Ross about 100 yards, which put Ross in the hospital.
In the Minneapolis incident, just a few days ago, the victim driver, Renee Macklin Good, is video recorded greeting the officer in a friendly manner. She's an American citizen with no police record, so she was not a suspect. She did not have any weapon and that was clear from the videos taken. Macklin Good was part of a neighborhood watch team peaceful protesting ICE agents trying to apprehend their neighbors. Her vehicle was partially - but not fully - obstructing the roadway, which was shown on the video, as one ICE vehicles in the caravan drove around Mackin Good's vehicle, literally a minute before the shooting. So it seems the use of lethal force, on an American citizen and mother of three, by Ross was completely unwarranted. But use the link above to click into the video so you can judge for yourself.
Did Murdoch's Fox News Fake the News Again?
I believe in the axiom innocent until proven guilty. But I also believe that seeing is believing. And thus far nothing has come out to controvert what I've described above, except false narratives of what happened by the Trump Administration which - like Trump's lies about 'Stop the Steal' and January 6th Insurrection - appear to be aided, abetted and amplified by billionaire Rupert Muroch's Fox News' dishonest, deceitful, manipulative reporting.
Macklin Good's relatives may want to lawyer up and send Fox News and Rupert Murdoch cease and desist letters for what could be their defamatory and misleading coverage. Fox News seems to have a penchant for repeating lies, particularly when the falsehoods serve their owner's private agenda.
What has happened in Minneapolis and the Trump Administration and Fox News response to it, is nothing short of disgusting. Do these people - Murdoch, Trump and associates - have no humanity or decency?
Trump, Fox & ICE Depiction of the Incident Appears to Contradict Reality
Did Trump & Fox Publicize False or Misleading Narratives to Manipulate?
According to a January 8, 2026 report by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the leading local newspaper in Minneapolis, this is how Trump / Noem ICE described what happened which is contradicted by the video posted via the link above.
"... Federal officials described Ross [the ICE agent who shot Good the victim] as an “experienced” officer. Ross was injured in a dragging incident during a June operation in the Twin Cities ... The woman killed was identified by her mother as Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good, 37 ... Minnesota leaders are calling on the federal government to allow state investigators to probe the fatal shooting, after the FBI took sole ownership of the probe ... “The FBI informed the [Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension] that the U.S. Attorney’s Office had reversed course: the investigation would now be led solely by the FBI,” said the state’s top investigative agency ...".
If what the Trump Administration said was true, then why have they forced local law enforcement out of 'the investigation'? Or is the Trump / Noem 'investigation' really a a Trump / Noem / ICE cover up like Trump / Bondi / DOJ did with the Epstein Files?
Trump is easily the most famous liar on planet Earth [look it up]. That's a fact. What he says is pretty close to meaningless and he talks a lot. And Billionaire TV News seems to try to not miss repeating even a word of it. The Washington Post said that Trump told over 30,000 lies, made misleading statements or spoke falsehoods in his first term as president. But in the second Trump Administration, Trump isn't the only liar. In fact I'm hard pressed to think of anyone in the Trump cabinet who is not a liar.
In 2025 alone, Kristi [shot her dog] Noem and ICE have reportedly made numerous false and misleading statements including: 1) lied to Congress [Senate Republican Majority Leader John Thune & Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson have utterly failed the American people by not asserting the powers of the coequal branch of government over which they preside], 2) misrepresented arrest data, 3) per a court ruling lied and distorted facts, 4) defied at least one court order, and 5) allegedly smeared detainee(s).
The Orwellian World of 1984 is Here
How Many Americans Will Ignore their Own Sense of Reality?
George Orwell was an early 20th century journalist, who covered and wrote extensively about dictators and totalitarian regimes, describing how they grab power from the people who don't pay attention [aka not woke], and who don't assert their power and rights - before they lose them. Regarding situations such as the matter of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, and the Trump / Murdoch Fox News response to it, he said this.
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
What did he mean by this statement. He means that when Rupert Murdoch's [a modern day Joseph Goebbels] Fox News team of propagandists, and the Trump Administration team of mythomaniacs, are all lying in concert; and use the power of the federal government and mass media to manipulate the people's perceptions of something the people can witness with their own eyes - the American public has to make a choice.
The choice is whether to a) believe your own eyes and ears and do your own thinking, or b) ignore what you see, hear and think, and accept whatever Rupert Murdoch's Fox News and Donald Trump's Administration tell you. As Orwell says, it will be their final, most essential command, because if you quit relying on your own senses and mental faculties to make your own decisions, you will have completely given up your freedom and own self determination.
I Think, Therefore I Am v. I Don't Think, Therefore I Am Not
The 17th century, French philosopher, Renee Descartes, famously said, "I think, therefore I am." In the 21st century, I wouid like to add an Orwellian corollary to that, which is, "I don't think, therefore I am not.". The essence of this corollary is that if you let the state do your thinking for you, you no longer exist mentally, emotionally or spiritually. The most important part of your existence will have died. Up until she was shot by an ICE agent earlier this week, Renee Macklin Good, was very much alive, according to my Orwellian corollary. You can honor her, by not acceding to the lies and falsehoods spread by the Trump Administration and Murdoch's Fox News, while encouraging others to do the same by showing them the video noted above.
I watched following TV News programs in the wake of the ICE shooting, and here's my grading of each of them. Fox News gets a F- for trying to create their own false interpretation of what happened; NDTV gets an F for being one-sided and asking no insightful questions, NBC & CBS get solid grades like a B or B+ on their first day news shows. I missed watching ABC and the CW. Democracy Now also gets a solid B or B+. And the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper website gets an A to an A+ for great local coverage of the many facets of this important story, as does the NYT for their video coverage to which we provided a link above. Both are free as of this writing.
January 11, 2026 Update. In the half week following the killing, many subsequent broadcasts by the corporate TV networks generally failed to maintain a sense of balance and truth, because of their incessant repetition of the 'official lies' put out by the Trump Administration, without correcting them when they run short clips. Specifically Noem statements, where she claims the ICE agent was protecting himself and the people around him - which is clearly not the case if you watch the NYT video report [see link in first graphic at the beginning of this story]. And the billionaire TV News showed short, edited video clips which failed to show the whole truth - as the NYT report, to which we linked to above.
Pay attention to this TV News degradation of accuracy and resort to superficiality; and help properly inform your family and friends by refering them to the NYT video report. This will clearly illustrate why Americans MUST shift their news consumption from billionaire controlled TV News to the web, where real journalism still lives.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our report about how Trump's & Noem's ICE agent appears to have committed manslaughter and they appear to be trying to cover it up.
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Epstein File Vote: TV News Misses the Point .. Again
Billionaire TV News Reports What They are Told (for ratings) with Scant Comprehension
November 18, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion.
Billionaire TV News Reports the Headlines but Misses the Meaning
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Billionaire TV News is waiting at the Capitol to cover the House vote to open the Epstein files.
Like it actually matters.
If you have absolutely nothing else going on in your life, then stay glued to the TV News screen to find out how the House and Senate will vote on the issue.
But it doesn't matter and it won't make a difference, as Donald Trump is doing what he does best. Making fools on the American people and the rule of law, by deceiving them and finding loopholes in the law to exploit. Both skills that Donald J. Trump has been practicing all of his life.
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We've entered The Disinformation Age. Much of the mass media is controlled by billionaires, especially TV assets. They changed the FCC laws so they are no longer required to behave ethically, accurately and so the billionaire press does what it does best, pursues profits regardless of community collateral damage. They're only sharing information that they want you to know. They omit key facts they don't want you to know or even entirely ignore important stories that may embarass their billionaire friends. They try to manipulate viewers' perceptions in order to get them to vote for candidates representing the billionaires' interests, and provide open mics to the candidates their choice - not fact checked - even when these pols are making numerous false or misleading statements.
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